They are editorializing about ISRAEL, right?
Wrong:
"Arrest warrant too costly for Darfur" by Eric Reeves | March 21, 2009
Eric Reeves, a Smith College professor, is author of "A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide.
EARLIER this month, Sudan's National Islamic Front expelled 13 humanitarian organizations from Darfur and Northern Sudan. The expulsion order followed immediately the announcement by the International Criminal Court of an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, charging him with crimes against humanity and war crimes. All evidence points to a well-planned response by Khartoum to a judicial decision that was universally expected.
The consequences of these expulsions are enormous. All expelled organizations played key roles in humanitarian assistance; together they constituted more than 50 percent of total aid capacity. Now 1.5 million people no longer have access to primary healthcare, and a deadly meningitis outbreak threatens tens of thousands. General food distributions to more than 1 million people have been halted, including to children and the malnourished. More than 1 million people will no longer have access to clean water; shortages are already being reported, and will spread quickly.
Look, I DON'T WANT ANYONE SUFFERING THERE which is why I want the WEST and ISRAEL to QUIT MUCKYING AROUND in the region!
Also see: Sudan Shuts Down Israeli Weapons-Smuggling Site
On Monday, the regime went further and announced its intention to expel all international aid organizations within a year, despite being unable to replace the work or resources of these organizations. This amounts to genocide by other means. With many months to anticipate the inevitable ICC announcement, Khartoum was determined to make the most of the occasion, and elimination of an international humanitarian presence in Darfur had long been a central ambition. The ICC announcement was not so much the cause of the expulsions as a singularly opportune pretext.
Efforts to blame the expulsions solely on the ICC's pursuit of justice ignore the broader context: For more than five years, Khartoum has engaged in systematic harassment, obstruction, and intimidation of humanitarian work. Insecurity has been deliberately engineered to become intolerable. Perversely, by attributing Khartoum's long-contemplated actions exclusively to the ICC warrant, a number of commentators are playing straight into the regime's hand.
The basic issue is clear: Many hundreds of thousands of lives are at acute risk, and the goal of the international community must be to secure re-admission for expelled organizations. The longer these expulsions continue, the more difficult it will be for organizations to resume operations. But so far there are no signs that the international community has made any progress in changing Khartoum's thinking.
Despite months of warning that the regime might well target humanitarian efforts after the ICC announcement, neither the Obama administration nor the European Union nor the UN Secretariat or Security Council had done any serious contingency planning. All were caught flat-footed.
As a consequence, the future looks grim for some 4.7 million people in Darfur. As water, food, and medical care disappear, these desperate people will move to where resources seem greater. Many may move to Eastern Chad, which is already struggling with more than 250,000 Darfuri refugees. But wherever these populations move they will encounter fierce competition for steadily diminishing resources. Violence and further displacement are inevitable.
Are there any answers?
As the Darfur genocide enters its seventh year, the world confronts a regime emboldened by a trail of worthless Security Council resolutions, meaningless agreements, and a "peacekeeping" force that can barely protect itself, let alone civilians and humanitarians.
The one option that remains - a distinct long shot - is Security Council deferral of the al-Bashir prosecution for a year under Chapter 16 of the ICC's Rome Statute, in return for re-admission of humanitarians with security guarantees.
So the OPS PAGE GUY is OPPOSED to the Globe's cry for war crimes, huh?
Any CALL for ISRAEL to be TRIED, you jooish piece of crap?
A Chapter 16 deferral has long been expediently supported by the Arab League and African Union; however, for Western nations - including Security Council permanent members France, Great Britain, and the US - supporting a deferral now would be transparently succumbing to the ugliest form of blackmail.
Hey, look, we do it for Israel all the time!
And yet given the inaction by the West and other international actors, are we in any position to invoke scruples about "deferring" international justice? Does anyone dare say that justice for Darfur must go forward, even at the expense of countless Darfuri lives threatened by humanitarian expulsions?
Before the ICC announcement, Darfuri sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of al-Bashir's arrest warrant. That may well be changing, however, as suffering and deprivation grow. Is anyone bothering to ask the people of Darfur?
No, the globalists never do because they don't care.
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KHARTOUM - Sudan's president traveled to Eritrea yesterday, choosing one of Africa's most politically isolated nations for his first trip abroad since the International Criminal Court sought his arrest on charges of war crimes in Darfur.
The one-day visit followed Eritrea's official invitation to Sudan's Omar al-Bashir, who faces the arrest warrant by the Netherlands-based court. Eritrean television showed Bashir being greeted at the airport in the Eritrean capital Asmara by President Isaias Afwerki, along with drummers and dancers. Sudanese state television later yesterday showed Bashir returning to Khartoum.
Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor said the visit was "important" and reflected Eritrean "solidarity . . . with Sudan against the ICC." Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu said Bashir was there to discuss regional security.
The ICC charged Bashir on March 4 of leading a counterinsurgency against Darfur rebels that involved rapes, killings and other atrocities against civilians. Up to 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million driven from their homes in the conflict since 2003, according to the UN. --more--"
Oh, THOSE FIGURES got a RARE MENTION, huh?
See: Obama Sets Sights on Sudan
"Darfur activist says crisis is worsening; Expulsion of aid groups has put thousands at risk" by James F. Smith, Globe Staff | March 25, 2009
The Sudanese government's expulsion of humanitarian aid groups from Darfur has put thousands of displaced people at risk of death from outbreaks of meningitis and other infectious diseases, a leading human rights campaigner said.
When do you ever see an article in the AmeriKan jewsmedia about Palestinians and there suffering (or any of USrael's victims, for that matter)?
Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah also said that two months into the Obama administration, the United States still lacks a coherent policy to confront the worsening situation in the Darfur region of western Sudan. He appealed for tougher action and greater urgency.
We've been here before.
Ahmed traveled to Boston this week to meet with Cambridge-based Physicians for Human Rights and other groups about the trauma facing more than 1 million Darfur residents living without adequate water, food or medicine, as well as the inadequate international response to the expulsions.
He said in an interview that the crisis had worsened since Sudan's president, Omar Al Bashir, was indicted by the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court earlier this month for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. Bashir responded by expelling 13 humanitarian groups that had been helping to provide food and medicine to some of the 2.5 million displaced people living in camps in Darfur.
Ahmed, a physician and professor who specializes in treatment of victims of torture and sexual violence, also is a longtime peace negotiator with the Sudanese Center for Rights Promotion and Peace Building, a reconciliation group. He is working with militias on both sides to get them to come to the bargaining table.
His years of work in his native Darfur earned him the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 2007. He said that after visiting with decision-makers in Washington, he is worried that the Obama administration still lacks a clear strategy for the Darfur crisis.
"We are urging this country, which gives more than 70 percent of the aid to Darfur, that it is time to stand up and say the right thing . . . Americans should be sure that this money and aid goes to the targeted groups. We need a very transparent mechanism. And we need more pressure."
Ahmed said the stress on internal refugees because of the food and water crisis may drive thousands more to make the dangerous trek from Darfur to camps in neighboring Chad. He said residents of some camps in Darfur are refusing to work with Sudanese government officials who are trying to take over the food distribution duties of the expelled groups.
The expulsions put a sudden stop to a meningitis immunization campaign that Doctors Without Borders was about to start, just at the onset of one of the periodic outbreaks of the disease, which Ahmed said occurs every eight to 10 years.
I'm sorry, but I don't trust vaccinations and doctors anymore. It sounds like the EndGame to me!!!!
Please see: Was AIDS Man-Made?
Sterilizing them is what they are doing.
Karen Hirschfeld, director of the Darfur Survival Campaign for Physicians for Human Rights who was escorting Ahmed in Boston, said she visited the refugee camps in Chad in November while conducting a Physicians for Human Rights study on women's rights violations.
"There is clearly not the capacity in the camps to deal with thousands of additional refugees," she said. "If 100,000 refugees come across borders [from Darfur], the camps cannot cope."
Ahmed said solving the Darfur crisis demands a regional response, involving Chad, the Central African Republic, Libya and Egypt, and that US policy needs to reflect a regional approach.
"It is very urgent," he said. "We are going to lose many of these innocent civilians' lives."Oh, you mean like this kid?
A displaced Sudanese child walked behind the fence of a clinic at Zamzam refugee camp on Monday. (Nasser Nasser/Associated Press)
Yeah, a little teary-eyed on that one because these are the precious souls I care about, and that's about all. Take your money, power, and killing in the name of it and shove it!
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Of couse, when an agenda-push is underway, we are flooded with alarmist articles after we've heard nothing for months.
"UN: Aid to 1 million Sudanese may end in May" by John Heilprin, Associated Press | March 25, 2009
UNITED NATIONS - More than one million people in Darfur will not get their food rations starting in May if Sudan and the United Nations can't fill gaps left by the expulsion of more than a dozen foreign aid groups, a joint UN-Sudanese assessment team said yesterday.
Even if other relief organizations in the region help, those are "Band-Aid solutions, not long-term solutions," John Holmes, the UN's top humanitarian official, said. Sudan expelled 13 foreign aid organizations and closed three local ones this month after the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands issued an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the western region of Darfur.
What did they expect to happen? If I was at your house and called you a war criminal, wouldn't you ask me to leave?
About 1.1 million people now dependent on food aid will not receive their rations starting in May if the aid gaps aren't filled, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, Ameerah Haq, said on behalf of the team. She warned that money will run out within four weeks for spare parts and fuel needed to provide drinking water for 850,000 people.
And more than 600,000 people are in danger of not getting materials needed to build shelters before the upcoming rainy season, Haq said. "The risks are high," Holmes told reporters yesterday.
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And WHAT ABOUT the PALESTINIANS, hmmm, Globe?
